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No, that would be worse actually. Imagine a circumstance where you need to use a library to fetch some network data that you can't do in a browser. Now you have to import the whole data stream via text serialize/deseralize into the browsers sandbox.

Wasm is also quite slower and bulkier because you'd have to compile your entire runtime into wasm, and then have it in the browser.




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